Servia

See also: servia, servía, sérvia, and Sérvia

English

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin Servia.

Proper noun

Servia

1. Archaic form of Serbia.
   • 1920, Edward Phillips Oppenheim, The Great Impersonation, Chapter 25:

     "If Russia mobilises, it is for defence. No nation in the world would dream of attacking Germany, nor has Germany the slightest intention of imperilling her coming supremacy amongst the nations by such crude methods as military enterprise. Servia must be punished, naturally, but to that, in principle, every nation in Europe is agreed. We shall not permit Austria to overstep the mark."

Derived terms

• Servian

Etymology 2

From Greek Σέρβια (Sérvia).

Proper noun

Servia

1. A city in West Macedonia, in northern Greece.

Synonyms

• Phylacae (historical)

Translations

city in West Macedonia

• Greek: Σέρβια (el) n pl (Sérvia)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: سرفیچه (Serfiçe)

Anagrams

• Arvies, arvies, varies

Latin

Proper noun

Servia f sg (genitive Serviae); first declension

1. alternative form of Serbia
   • 1511, Bernardus Sylvanus ed., Jacobus Angelus's translation of Ptolemy as Liber Geographica, Bk VIII:

     In nona Tabula[:] Iaziges metanastae[,] Dacia Vulachia[,] Mysia superior: Seruia[,] Mysia inferior Bosna[,] Tratia[,] Chersonesus.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Servia
genitive	Serviae
dative	Serviae
accusative	Serviam
ablative	Serviā
vocative	Servia

Spanish

Proper noun

Servia ?

1. Servia

Further reading

• “Servia”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Panhispanic Dictionary of Doubts] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, 2023, →ISBN